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Expect TV One to pull Person of Interest from its Thursday line-up after a second week of disastrous ratings for the HD re-run. Thursday’s episode averaged a shockingly low 2.0% – 3.8% of key demographics. It was most popular with TV One’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, but still drew half the viewership of lead-in Coronation [...]

Repeating Person of Interest in primetime so soon after its first run proved disastrous for TV One on Thursday – and rightly so. What used to be the industry leader has become so pathetically risk-averse that executives think it acceptable to saddle viewers with three consecutive weeknights of wall-to-wall repeats. As of next week, the [...]

Criminal Minds is challenging Desperate Housewives as Monday night’s most popular HD drama series. Last night’s episode won the 8.30pm hour with TV One’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds (12.2% versus 11.0%), as well as with household shoppers (15.2% vs 14.1%). It also rated strongly in the 18-49 demographic (9.7% vs 10.5%) and was only two [...]

Monday’s network HD premiere of Avatar helped TV3 to win the night but didn’t demolish the competition. It averaged 10.1% of TV3’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, versus 9.3% for TV One’s Criminal Minds and 7.3% for TV2’s SD movie, Sweet Home Alabama. With TV2’s core viewership, 18-39 year-olds, the race was much tighter: Avatar averaged [...]

Sky Movies Premiere: Faster (Sky 20, 8.30, 5.1) Vengeful ex-con Dwayne Johnson hits the road in his 40-year-old bad-ass Chev to pay back his brother’s killers, with junkie cop Billy Bob Thornton in hot pursuit. Faster is an edge-of-the-front seat thriller with fantastic stunts, premium production values, and writing of a higher calibre than you’d expect for [...]

Last night’s HD premiere of Person of Interest proved interesting enough to win the 9.30pm hour with TV One’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. But TV3’s HD repeat of 2 Fast 2 Furious easily overtook it in the 18-49 and 18-39 demos. Last night also was notable for the return of Shortland Street, Piha Rescue, Rapid [...]

Series premiere: Person of Interest (TV One, 9.30) This police procedural from producer JJ Abrams (Lost) and Dark Knight screenwriter Jonathan Nolan stars The Passion of the Christ’s Jim Caviezel as an ex-CIA agent who teams with an enigmatic millionaire (Lost’sMichael Emerson) to stop crime before it happens using hi-tech tools. Newsday dubbed it “a gritty, almost plausible winner, and distant reflection of Steven Spielberg’s Minority [...]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i Saturday TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Keeping Up With the Joneses (TV One, 7.00) Sunday Hellcats (TV2, 5.30) The War at Home (TV2, 6.30, R) North (TV One, 7.00, R) Movie: Kung Fu Panda (TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) Monday Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) Season premiere: Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) Modern [...]

TV One will be the first of the networks to roll out its new season shows. In the week starting January 14, it will launch two new series in HD and new seasons of returning HD hits Criminal Minds, Rapid Response and Piha Rescue. One of the HD newcomers also is local: Primeval New Zealand, [...]

One of TV One’s HD high-flyers for 2012, Pan Am, heralds an influx of US drama on the network. Others include Alcatraz, which stars Sam Neill in a new Lost-like mystery from JJ Abrams, Unforgettable (ex-detective with “the memory of an elephant” goes back on the beat) and Person of Interest (ex-FBI agent becomes a [...]